Examples

Start daemon:

ifstat -d 20 -t 20

Client:

ifstat RX -------------------------- TX ------------------------- lo 973.0 k bit/s 126 pps 973.0 k bit/s 126 pps eth0 643.8 k bit/s 147 pps 571.2 k bit/s 106 pps sunet6 103.3 k bit/s 10 pps 3.9 k bit/s 5 pps

ifstat2 eth* RX -------------------------- TX ------------------------- eth0 704.9 M bit/s 59 k pps 3.2 M bit/s 5 k pps eth1 16 bit/s 0 pps 215.8 k bit/s 431 pps eth2 220.8 k bit/s 441 pps 0 bit/s 0 pps eth3 0 bit/s 0 pps 219.5 k bit/s 438 pps

Option below gives all netstat counters in absolute numbers plus rate for for same counters.

ifstat2 -e eth0

#ovrf=0 EWMA=3 client-pid=3982 -- pid=3653 sampling_interval=20 time_const=20 Interface RX Pkts/Rate TX Pkts/Rate RX Data/Rate TX Data/Rate
RX Errs/Rate RX Drop/Rate RX Over/Rate RX Leng/Rate
RX Crc/Rate RX Frm/Rate RX Fifo/Rate RX Miss/Rate
TX Errs/Rate TX Drop/Rate TX Coll/Rate TX Carr/Rate
TX Abrt/Rate TX Fifo/Rate TX Hear/Rate TX Wind/Rate
eth0 18759K 25 26161K 5 2029M 2K 2041M 1K
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0